Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-19


lieye that sweet cream.from given quantity
of milk will yield as much butter as sour
cream from the same milk.
The one great cause of the small profits
of the majority of small-fruit growers and
UNDERGRADUATES is due to the fact that
they try to work too much land.
The cheapest and quickest way poor
farmer can improve his pecuniary condi-
ton is to improve his stock by the persist
ent use of the best full blooded sires.
The new breed of fowls, the Minoreas,
are claimed to be red faced black Spanish,
but are harder than the Spanish. They lay
larger eggs than any other breed OF fowls.
To protect watermelon plants from bugs.
a South Carolina grower recommends char
coal dust or coal-kiln dirt, busting about a
pint over each hill when the plants are
young.
Good mules are always in demand, and
as thew are more easily raised than horses
it would probably pay to make speciality
of them on large farms where pasture is
abundant.
Coal ashes have been used successfully
around currant and gooseberry bushes to
drive away borers. A plentiful mixture of
ashes with soil has kept the radish maggot
out of radish beds.
The coming butter-maker, according to
the National StockHdn, must have clean
mouth and breath as well as clean clothes
and clean apron, be honest, neat, smart,
level headed and able to keep accounts.
Rip out your unnecessary fences and pile
up the posts and rails or boards neatly, and
protect them from the weather until you
have use for them. Every fence that is not
obe ,,ae1ad O COSTLY n1IiSanpp
The great improvements in agriculture
and farm implements-lab ma
chinery-have come from those deeply in
terested in agricultural works, while not
following agriculture as means OF sup
port.
One who has been a close student of the
habits of his flocks, is satisfied that when
they are allowed to drink all the good water
they will, they do much better than if de-
prived of it, on the old idea that sheep do
not need water.
A Pekin duck, if forced by high feeding
from the time it is Matched, will weigh five
pounds when ten weeks old, costing about
thirty cents for food, and selling for double
that price. while its feathers and manure
also possess value.
Mr. Downing, perhaps the most famous
Vi Jul OMu
cluded the melon among fruits. Henri
Vilmorin, equally famous in the Old
World, classes the strawberry among veg
etables. Readers may take their choice.
No dealer should handle pound of but
ter until he first secures a room to keep it
separate from all other goods having any
unpleasant odor. A cheap, up-ground, ar
tifcial cellar is best, where the air is pure
and well ventilated, but can be kept cool.
There is no better savings bank OH the
farm than the manure heap. 1t is a re-
ceptacle upon which every ounce of waste
material may be placed. and the daily saw
ings OF small amounts accumulate into
valuable deposits in the course of twelve
months.
Major Alvord mentions that COW years
ago was considered good that gave 6,000
pounds of milk in year Nowadays COWS
that give 10000 pounds year are not I'M
common. He has lately been watching a
COW whose milk record was 10000 pounds
of milk in year.
Well conducted experiments in beet
feeding, says Professor Fear, of the Penn
sylvania State College, are greatly needed
in this country. Farmers could realize
from them what they have lost by so long
neglecting crop entering in the rotation of
all well-managed farms.
Merino wool has been greatly improved
within the past hundred years. Formerly
it had a fineness of $50 fibers to the inch /;
in 1856 an inch held $40 fbers, but at the
present day an inch contains from 1000 TO
1900 fibers, and the breed is still being i'm
proved in fneness of wool.
The farming community have been much
more indebted TO persons who have learned
agriculture from papers and books than they
suppose. The man who reads also thinks
and experiments. 1t becomes habit with
him, if he have leisure, TO test practically
what is claimed theoretically.
There is room for improvement in the
exhibition of breeding stock at fairs. As a
rule the stock is shown in the latest con-
dition possible. Fat is detrimental to the
production of offspring, and line should
be drawn between the animals intended
for the butcher and those to be kept for
breeding
1t has been demonstrated by experiment
that one acre of land upon which is grown
soiling crops for dairy COWS will produce
sufficient food to enable the cows to double
the yield of milk and butter as compared
with the ordinary mode of pasturing If
this be possible with all farmers the extra
yield should afford profit
1t requires practice and close attention to
all the details in order to produce two tubs
of butter alike in quality. A change in
the kind of food given the cows will alter
the character OF the product, as may be
noticed when wild onions are eaten. The
most careful consideration should be given
the feed, and next the cleanliness of the
stalls.
1t is claimed that 400 pounds Of butter
per annum is the average for Jersey COWS
but this is a high estimate, considering the
neglect given them on some farms. The
cows do not average more than 300 milk
ing days in the year, and to produce 400
pounds of butter every year calls for a pro-
duct of nearly pounds of butter per week
for each cow.
To cure scratches take lump OF lime
say two pounds-slack with chamber lyeto
about the consistency of whitewash; then
with a swab apply it to parts affected. In
twenty-four hours wash clean with warm
water and repeat, and in twenty-four hours
wash clean. Keep well oiled for one week,
and your horse will be well. / am sure
this will cure the worst case of grease heels
that ever existed.
A North Carolina writer asks which
would be the best breed of beef cattle to
cross on his native stock in that State
Polled Angus, Shorthorn, or Hereford
and the New York Times responds that
none of these would be suited to the To-
cality indicated-a cotton-growing region
but recommends the Devon, which makes
excellent beef, while the cows are better
mixers than any one of the three men
toned.
Mrs. Captain G. A. Ranlett, of Billeriea,
Mass, has choice COW which she let out
one day in early summer for an airing
She strayed away a half mile or more to
the miIl-pond, where she was found and
brought home. Noting the cows condition,
some one connected with the house went
to the locality where she was found, and
discovered two fine and risky calves. The
real surprise, however, came the next
morning, when two more calves were
found. Unfortunately the last two died for
want of care, but old farmers of the vicin-
ity who saw them said that all would have
lived if they had received proper attention.